. question arises about what is meant by social organization of control of snuff, especially in times where smoking strengthens the international agenda legitimized by the Framework Convention for the Control of Snuff FCTC, and with it the arrival of opportunities funding for projects and businesses related to products or services to support its implementation. In
every organization there are a group of people that make explicit its desire to interact around specific cultural and social objectives, strengthening social relationships that allow personal growth and mission of the organization. From this mutual agreement develop programs, projects and agendas that give sustainability to the social institutions.
Organizations can be of various types and in any case are the objectives that determine the Gender, youth, consumers, health, education, utilities, environmental, union, religious, ethnic, community, etc. In this section there is a common denominator: the absence of profit in the imperative the common good.
But society also raises other trade-related organizational expressions, such as companies, corporations, businesses and industries, mainly. The profit motive and economic benefit for partners is of the essence, to the point that if these assumptions leads disappear settlement. In this context
What is a social organization of control of the snuff? From the outset say that "snuff control" denotes characteristics of comprehensiveness and universality, meaning that anyone who defines himself or presented as "social organization snuff control" should include commitments to all of the FCTC in principles, objectives, duties and measures.
Now, an organization can or should be limits on their consulting capabilities objectives and resources available and that's fine. What we can do is "engage" with some of the measures in the Convention, the most widely identified with their goals, and deny next line from the action or speech, the relevance or political need, social and cultural other control measures snuff. For example, it is unacceptable smoke-free work and at the same time be co-participants in social responsibility projects of tobacco or a strict interpretation of the regulations on health warnings or prohibitions advertising.
If we accept the nature of comprehensiveness and universality, social organizations must have the potential to mobilize and integrate into the global agenda of anti-smoking social movement that works to promote and defend the Framework Convention. Your contribution will, of course, work and achievements resulting from their own social objectives. Looking at the global picture, it is clear that this approach is found in almost all anti-smoking organizations or networks, contributing in a decisive manner to strengthen the process of ratification and implementation of the Framework Convention.
At the same time, the elements characterizing themselves comprehensiveness and universality of the FCTC, discarded recognition as snuff control organizations to NGOs facade of the tobacco companies for reasons explained by themselves, the production unions that defend the economic interests of the tobacco industry and appear, for example, advancing child protection campaigns, and businesses or corporations that border when their commercial interests coincide with some actions of the installation process of public policy to implement measures to control supply and demand for products snuff.
THE PHARMACEUTICAL
The latter is a major player the pharmaceutical industry that is linked to events where no market for smoking cessation medications, as an expression of "social mandate" to open up business opportunities to realize economic benefits. This commercial connotation rule, for example, will allow pharmaceutical companies free use of patents or commit to selling at low cost, freeing only operational and technical costs. No, its referent is not a public health problem of smoking but to respond to the economic interests of its shareholders. From this perspective, drug officials have a clear mission: market shares; wrong are those of us from the public health approach, by not fixing the boundary between commercial and corporate governance principles and values \u200b\u200bthat drive our fight against smoking.
Colophon: When WHO assume that to improve the impact of measures against the pandemic of smoking, it is imperative to exercise control over patents for smoking cessation products to make them available to governments and Smoking?
PHOTO: Representatives of snuff control in the 2 nd SRNT
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